Sara's Elements

It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.
--- Garrison Keillor

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, "I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along." You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
---Eleanor Roosevelt

Man spricht sich an. Man hat sich kaum gesehen.
Man hofft vergebens, dass es einmal anders geht.
Man lässt die Liebe laufen, und das Herz bleibt stehen.
Man möchte am liebsten gleich ins Wasser gehen...
Doch man geht tanzen. Und kein Mensch versteht,
warum man traurig ist, wenn man zum Tanzen geht.
--- Max Kolpe

There is pleasure in the pathless woods, There is beauty on the lonely shore, There is society where none intrudes, By the deep sea and the music in its roar; I love not man the less, but Nature more.
--- Lord Byron

What is the feeling when you're driving away from people, and they recede in the plain till you see their specks dispersing? - It's the too huge world vaulting us, and it's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.
--- Jack Kerouac